Director, Engineering Manager

Job Overview

Asset Mark is a leading wealth management platform dedicated to empowering independent financial advisors. Our mission is to enable advisors to make a profound difference in the lives of their clients.

Hybrid work schedule required. Candidates must be close to our Concord, CA office.

Lead a frontend‑first team responsible for the user interfaces used by financial advisor clients and operations professionals to open and enroll accounts and provide servicing.

• Lead the team in delivering against a large, complex, and commercially critical product roadmap.
• Own execution quality—ensuring teams ship reliably, quickly, and with high standards.
• Translate product priorities into clear engineering plans, sequencing, and trade‑offs.
• Drive a culture of accountability for outcomes, not just output.
• Continuously improve how the team delivers—balancing speed, quality, and scalability.

• Lead and develop a multi‑squad frontend engineering team, with a strong emphasis on growing junior and mid‑level engineers into exceptional talent.
• Establish a culture of craft excellence, mentorship, and continuous improvement.
• Act as a hands‑on technical leader, contributing meaningfully to the codebase (approximately 40%+ of time).
• Hire and retain engineers who care deeply about UX, performance, and code quality.
• Build out our Global Capability Center in Hyderabad.

• Champion frontend patterns (component‑driven design, declarative approaches, state management discipline).
• Shape how we leverage AI‑assisted development in all aspects of the SDLC.
• Drive consistency in design systems, UI frameworks, and shared components.
• Ensure high standards for performance, accessibility, and usability.
• Partner with platform teams on BFF integration patterns while maintaining clear frontend ownership boundaries.

• Lead teams building intuitive, performant, and elegant applications for advisors and investors.
• Raise the bar on interaction design, responsiveness, and perceived performance.
• Ensure tight alignment between design intent and engineering execution.
• Push teams to think beyond features—to end‑to‑end experience quality.

• Operate in tight, durable partnerships with Product and Design leaders embedded in your teams.
• Contribute to product strategy with a strong point of view on what great experiences look like.
• Translate ambiguous product goals into clear technical direction and execution plans.
• Foster a culture of shared ownership across Engineering, Product, and Design.

• Own delivery across a portfolio of frontend teams, balancing speed, quality, and sustainability.
• Establish clear engineering standards, patterns, and ways of working.
• Guide teams through complex cross‑application workflows and shared dependencies.
• Lead through ambiguity while maintaining high velocity and high standards.

• Deep expertise in modern frontend development (React, Type Script, mobile frameworks, etc.).
• Strong point of view on UI patterns, state management, and performance optimization.
• Passion for design systems, usability, and interaction quality.
• Care not just about what you build—but how it feels to the user.

• Proven ability to develop junior and mid‑level engineers into high performers.
• Experience leading multi‑team / multi‑squad teams.
• View management as a craft of talent stewardship and growth.
• Create environments where engineers learn fast and do their best work.

• Hands‑on by choice, not by necessity.
• Comfortable contributing to production code, code reviews, and design discussions.
• Lead through example, not just direction.

• Think like a product partner, not just an engineering leader.
• Ask why before what, and what before how.
• Highly focused on execution and delivering business impact.
• Thrive in environments with meaningful scope, urgency, and accountability.